wow. a research into xin yao?
dunno much abt how it evolved. but i do noe at tt time, the songs
of ppl like pan ying, yan li ming, chen jia ming, liang wen fu, etc
were very popular. i guessed they sort of like sparked of the
widespread interest in xin yao. perhaps at tt time, ppl began to
compose songs tt were of a more local flavour after listening to
all the hong kong and taiwanese ones (although these were not tt
hot then, they prob led these budding composers and songwriters to
start writing), and these locally flavoured songs garnered alot of
interest which led to the xinyao craze.
i dunno abt their business models but i haf this idealistic feeling
that they were more "pure" den, and tt their intention was more to
write singaporean songs for singaporeans. of cos, there mus be an
economic angle to all such ventures else nobody would help them cut
the records, and i guess in this sense, if they were frm different
record companies, they could be considered rivals.
